Greg Reibman, who once ran the Wicked Local empire, wrote yesterday that "My heart breaks for the once great Newton TAB" after seeing the photo somebody there placed under a headline about the Newton mayoral race.
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Hnasko addresses an open tweet to the Tab:
I followed your advice and I was 2 hours late to work!
The Globe does a feature on up-and-coming local access star and Newton Tab editorial cartoonist Mark Marderosian and neglects to mention that he's the Newton Tab editorial cartoonist.
I suppose there's a reason boston.com has posted a GateHouse video about how great the Newton Tab is. Maybe it's the ads they've wrapped around it.
Imagine if they held a blog and nobody showed up - the Tab tries to keep people from replying to their own replies; frequent repliers try a boycott to see what happens (read the entire thread for full effect).
Via Garden City, which, naturally, sets up a thread for the boycotters and boycottees.
Borderline looks at the Globe's new Westword blog, which covers the western suburbs and goes ick: It consists almost entirely of promotional blurbs for items already in the paper and has no comments. In contrast:
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